Dehastha-devata: 1 definition
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Source: Google Books: The Ṣaṭsāhasra Saṃhitā‘The deities of the body’ (dehasthā devatā) probably refers to the fifty goddesses of the mālinī-system, and the fifty Rudras or Bhairavas of the Śabdarāśi-system. The deities of both systems are connected with a particular part of the human body. The ‘honouring of the deities of the body’ actually means that the teacher consecrates the body by means of nyāsa for the following ritual, the body thus becoming consecrated to Mālinī (=Śakti) and Śabdarāśi (=Śiva). Another group of ‘deities of the body’ which might be intended ar ethe gods and goddesses of the five mahāpīṭhas among which we also find the goddesses of the Mālinī-system.
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